Cyberosia Publishing announced today that Peter Milligan and Brett Ewins' Johnny Nemo stories, which originally appeared in the trend-setting UK pop culture magazine Deadline in the late 80s/early 90s, will be collected this fall in a trade paperback that will also include the first new Nemo story in over a decade.  Peter Milligan, whose satirical bent is currently on display in Marvel's X-Force, described his Johnny Nemo stories as 'set in a fictitious, futuristic city called New London, and featuring a larger-than-life, one might say Byronic, figure called Johnny Nemo.'  Others referred to the modish Nemo as the 'Peroxide Designer God of Violence,' but after all Nemo was created in the era of American Psycho and with an equally subversive and satirical undertow that keeps dragging the reader beneath the glossy, shimmering surface.  The first 88-page volume of Johnny Nemo will be available from FM International and Diamond this November, and will carry a cover price of $12.95.

 

In addition to collecting nearly a dozen Johnny Nemo short stories from Deadline Magazine, the collection will also include 'Time For Nemo,' the first new addition to the Johnny Nemo canon in over a decade.  Cyberosia, which has published a number of other graphic novels including Cathedral Child, Aporiatica, and Broken Boy, is typical of the growing new category of primarily graphic novel publishers, who are mining the recent past for comic treasures that have never been collected (or are out of print) as well as commissioning new work from contemporary artists.  The rise of publishers like Cyberosia and Checker Books indicates that the public's appetite for graphic novel and comic collections continues to grow as old prejudices against the comics medium gradually fall by the wayside.